Tag: food
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Films through the dessert lens
Sweets in films carry messages, bringing a key plot point, theme, or character into healthier view. Sweets elicit sympathy, expressing love, healing and togetherness, as well as heartbreak, sadness and sickness. Sugar is so facile in films that it can function as the stocky nectar that binds characters to each other or as a poison…
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The iconic ANZAC biscuit
An Australian icon, these crunchy biscuits originated during World War 1. It is generally believed that the ANZAC biscuit were created by the Australian and New Zealand wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts who wanted to make a treat for their loved ones that could survive the long journey to the front, that’s why they keep…
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From Farm to Fork: Tomatoes
The saying goes ‘you are what you eat’, but just how much do you really know about the food you are eating? The term ‘Farm to Fork’ (or ‘Farm to Table’) refers to the stages involved in the production of food: cultivating, harvesting, storage, processing, packaging, sales and end consumption. It is also a ‘movement’…
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Think you know food?
What do you really know about foodstuffs? Take this quiz to find out! To get in the right mindset, think about pancakes, desserts, cheese and sandwiches (yum!). Hint: all answers can be found in the newly published The Oxford Companion to Food, Third Edition! [polldaddy type=”iframe” survey=”5F388BBD645253EC” height=”auto” domain=”oxfordaustralia” id=”oxford-food-quiz”]